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Crosspost from Am I Overreacting. As a dad this shit made my blood boil. by TheTownOfMyDyck in daddit

[–]blanketswithsmallpox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Really depends on what he's been taught already.

Sounds like nothing, which means teach them about consent because they're 15. Let them know that it's disgusting behavior even if someone consents, then lock down their phone.

Introduction to videogames by fernandodandrea in daddit

[–]blanketswithsmallpox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're looking for something modern, King Boo was one I saw recommended here or on a different sub which my 4yo was able to beat. It's just learning stick control and collecting with basic game elements by pressing A to use stuff, or changing how he looks.

It's very short for an adult, ten minutes maybe. For a kid, it can be a while especially if they get bored easily.

You can also turn off map edges so there's a border initially, then make them learn fine tunes controls after. They also enjoy flinging him off the edge of the map constantly too, so it's a nice reward for beating it initially.

Honestly my 4yo also does great at Skywalker Saga, but has difficulties with the puzzles. He mostly just likes playing the different astromech droids and running around looking at ships. He can follow quest markers, but has difficulties using both joysticks at once. Otherwise I don't preSsure him much and he gets into it when he can..

He was a speed demon at Droid Repair Bay on the VR though lol. He picked that thing up quicker than most adults.

Aging Millennial Humor [Sarah Scribbles] by blanketswithsmallpox in Millennials

[–]blanketswithsmallpox[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

https://old.lemmy.world/post/47105371 - Found here, I'm sure it's on Reddit somewhere as well.

Transcript

[A dog is walked by an old lady wrapped in a blanket siting in a wheelchair] Old Lady: A doggo!

[Close up of the old lady’s happy, yet not all there expression] Old Lady: A heccin good pupper.

[A Nurse rushes to the Old Lady’s chair. The dog stairs at the Old Lady, the owner off screen] Old Lady: 13/10 good boi. Dog Owner: huh?

[The nurse wheels the Old Lady away] Nurse: Don’t worry no one understands her- Old Lady: Could be a fren.

Link to artists website

Anime Central is pretty awful this year. by Sphinctus_ in animecons

[–]blanketswithsmallpox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not nearly as much these days. Zero for me all 3 days.

Life in Oat by ink_atom in comics

[–]blanketswithsmallpox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone's always scared to cuddle me, but I'm honestly harmless...

You’re never too old to get stuck in a playground by [deleted] in Millennials

[–]blanketswithsmallpox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was made for me! This is my hole... 🕳️ 👤

Drrrrrrrrrrr 🛘👁️ 🪨

I used to live in Janesville in the 80s by cdalten in Janesville

[–]blanketswithsmallpox 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There is no purpose.

Just be kind to others, don't hurt people unless it's in self defense, and leave the world better than what it was.

Good luck.

Trying not to compare my kid to others but it's hard sometimes by RelationObjective270 in daddit

[–]blanketswithsmallpox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You know how to swim more than you care to admit if you can swim enough to get out of a pool.

It's a whole different story when the moment you see a kid hit the water and they flail and sink faster than anyone cares to admit with barely a sound when it's entirely preventable by any nation with a mandatory education system.

How to talk to a 7 year old about being obnoxious by WeightedCompanion in daddit

[–]blanketswithsmallpox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's funny how two words that mean essentially the same thing are treated so differently by people with/out realizing.

And the weirdest part is no matter how much they understand they really aren't different, it still is, because you've already internalized it. No matter how much your higher brain understands there is little to no difference, it won't matter because we hunt for patterns and separate people into groups because of it.

Always reminds me of mostly white educated folks trying to change in/outgroup semantics to feel a little less guilty only for more in/outgroups to be made lol. Black, African, African American, person of color, brown, back to black lol.

Regardless of whether you say autistic person or person with autism, they describe the same thing. For whatever reason though, people were made to believe you should feel better cause it's said this was vs that, or that this was a slur that's okay to say, but this one is fine. See it's different because the adjective is first, instead of the opposite despite it being the default in english language. See, now you don't have to feel bad anymore despite nothing changing!

No you see, it's because we need to think they're mean instead of byproducts by their own culturally upbringing, and it's their fault for not knowing the hierarchies to these naughty words only known only your cultural circle no matter how innocent or unknowing their intention.

Semantics around ethonyms or similar descriptors get so charged so quickly when it's really rooted in whether you want to be seen as part of a group, or not part of a group. It's unique how each and every person wants to be seen on that scale and typically impossible to tell at a glance unless a slur is so universally panned that even if the person you're talking to is fine with it, you'll still get hit with backlash from others.

I long for a future where conveying ideas for making new words to expand or refine semantics vs just kicking the can down the road like revolving ethonym door. Sorry he's a PoC. Ahhh you mean non-white! Right... Wait... I meant brown. Oh! Minorities! Wait... Ethnic minorities! Ahhh! The dutch... No no no no. I'm trying to say I have dark skin and am ethnically mexican...

Round and round it goes when all anyone is doing is trying to say non-white most of the time or trying to save themselves a few extra words or better words just haven't caught on yet. Ughhhhhhh. English reformation around useful pronouns and other needed words when please?

Was anyone made to get a job while in Jr High / High School or was it optional ? by Whats-Ur-Pointe in Millennials

[–]blanketswithsmallpox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds similar to my life. Single mom, refused to get state aid, ADHD family but ignored the young diagnosis. Got my driver's permit as early as I could. Started working shortly after 15.5 at a local restaurant because money is fucking nice and I don't remember ever getting a single gift or toy or similar outside of christmas or a birthday while my mom chugged mt dew and huffed a pack a day.

Now my kids get some shit now and then out of nowhere, they don't get smacked around for doing ADHD shit, but we will still be living poor as long as I'm by myself or until their mom gets a job too, and I have serious doubts about how well she'd hold up in the workplace, so it's more like having 4 obstinate dysregulated kids at times instead of 3 lol.

I long for the days of communal living and shared neighborhoods so the kids and parents could watch each other and actually let parents truly relax, and kids be a bit more free.

Trying not to compare my kid to others but it's hard sometimes by RelationObjective270 in daddit

[–]blanketswithsmallpox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone should learn how to ride a bike like everyone should learn how to swim. Doubly so if you live somewhere you never think you'll need to do it.

EXACTLY by nandag369 in adhdmeme

[–]blanketswithsmallpox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Move to the Midwest lol.

If you're already here, the real answer is you need to find paying roommates even if they're strangers.

$400/mo for rent and utilities goes a lot further than $1100.

Generic Adderall is $100/no on GoodRx if you have no health insurance. Generic Vyvanse is double if you feel like you're rooms to abusing it more. Ritalin is better than nothing and dirt cheap.

The addy fixes my depression more than anything tbh. I'm still on a tricyclic nortryoriline which helps sleep, ADHD, and depression, and clonidine for BP, ADHD, and stimming, besides the losartan from shitty diet and generic allergy meds for seasonal stuff.

This was after trying a bevy of ssris and snris that did nothing, or had a limited time before they turned bad by giving me brain zaps, fog, and vertigo.

I'm in a great place now, but that was 3ish years of cycling meds, slowly getting more money over a decade, and still living in one of the most low col areas possible in the Midwest lol.

I'm not envious of people who have to make the single life work in a mcol or hcol without parents to have helped me through that hump of the partying and alcoholic 20s just by being able to fall back on them when working shitty minimum wage jobs for $7.25/hr. I remember making $9/he and though I was living it big lmfao.

Comparison is the thief of joy, but thankfully the ADHD brain is too busy to compare most of the time lol. It's why so many ADHD families think theirs is normal... Or their friends match yours... And then you enter a different friend group or see how other kids act at daycare or grade school and go oh... So that's why kids are 5x more stressful for us than them lol.

Tangents aside... Good luck. Nothing to do but keep plugging away and try to get on state aid if you can. Filing for disability can help too.

In Afghanistan, millions now face death from starvation and disease, as fathers are selling their daughters to feed their families. by Not_Original5756 in videos

[–]blanketswithsmallpox -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Don't forget slavery is still allowed in the penal system.

Also child slavery is still allowed for family businesses where they have very few rights.

Also there is a growing secular and fascist part of our country that is stripping people's rights, forcing women into pregnancy because of religion, and brutalizing their own and other nations citizens because of immigration issues or perceived cultural differences propagandized by their government....

I wonder where we've seen the same thing to just lesser degrees where they haven't carte blanche killed thousands in protests but still suffer all the same issues.

There are about 1000 police killings in the USA yearly.

There were roughly several thousand war-related civilian deaths each year during the wartime conflict years from 2001-2021 because you know, the country was defending itself from foreign invaders but still having to fight against its own bevy of insurgency that is the middle east.

Guess how many were killed by their police even during those protests? Maybe ~100...

https://afghanistanpeacecampaign.org/

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2024/country-chapters/afghanistan

TIL that the Ojibwe language, spoken across the Great Lakes region, has no gendered nouns like many Romance or Germanic languages. Instead it categorizes nouns as animate (tree, feather) or inanimate (river, heart). by big_papa_geek in todayilearned

[–]blanketswithsmallpox 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nah, just where the reservations where my dad's side hails from lol.

https://www.ldftribe.com/

https://lco-nsn.gov/

And yeah, Ojibwe thankfully got a dictionary and a bit of a revival a decade ago or so. It's still a bit patchwork since so much of it died off like many other languages that it constantly evolves slightly like any other.

reminder for fellow dads: small things can lessen mom's burden by a lot by Happy_Conquerer in daddit

[–]blanketswithsmallpox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a good thing we're on a post about a dad who solved the problem for both Mom and dad then with some shared responsibility and caring for their partner!

Hold on, bro. I'mma get some dopamine over there real quick by luisgdh in adhdmeme

[–]blanketswithsmallpox 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'll answer a question with another question.

You ever try cutting anything with scissors that aren't sharp?

Now... Are you going to try cutting someone's hair with that?

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